We've enhanced Educate’s attendance tracking system by introducing , enabling , ensuring , and improving the for better usability. This update is available to both Teachers and Admins views.

✅ Key Features Delivered

📊 Benefits to Highlight

We’ve upgraded several API endpoints to ensure compliance with requirements for the . These updates include changes to data types, which have been successfully handled on the backend.

Please note that these enhancements are . As a result, administrators syncing data with Wise may not notice any immediate differences.

Additionally, we now support , in accordance with Wise’s specifications.

For further details, refer to the official DPI guidance on the https://dpi.wi.gov/wisedata/help/mini-tutorials/edcred.

🔄 : We’ve upgraded ActiveMQ, the communication bridge between multiple system components. This upgrade enhances overall functionality, improves performance, addresses security vulnerabilities, and ensures compatibility with modern technologies.

📝 : Previously, a hard error occurred when a school/admin used the and a response had already been submitted via that link. This issue has now been resolved. The system now handles such cases, allowing continued use of anonymous links without errors.

💳 : An issue that prevented parents from making payments using the has been fixed. Users on Apple devices or Safari should now be able to complete payments without any problems.

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Open to all current partner schools using Ravenna®, TADS®, SSS®, CampusPay®, and Educate® SIS.

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The Bulk Action menu now opens upward, making it more convenient and timesaving for users to perform actions without needing to scroll down.

Specific actions available in the Bulk Action menu include assigning tasks, sending communications, and updating records.

These changes are applicable in the Classroom module for teachers, and in the Classroom, Results, and Communications modules for Admins.

Card validation messages have been improved for greater clarity. Parents will now see clear toaster notifications specifying "Credit or Debit cards" while making payments in the Household module.

The Attendance Count for Section report now offers two options for generating reports:

Help text has been added to clarify the differences between these report types for better usability.

We are excited to announce Renaissance Learning is available as a new SFTP partner in our integration list. This integration will enable you to send your class roster, staff details, and other relevant information directly from Educate to Renaissance.

Under the "SFTP Integration" tool, select "Renaissance" as the partner.

Enter the credentials provided by the Renaissance Team.

Adjust settings as needed and click “Save Settings.”

Review files by downloading or sending them to Renaissance.

Data will automatically sync twice daily: Once in the morning and once in the evening.

Customize student auto numbers or IDs to a specific digit in the Setup under Demographics. Enter the desired number/digit in the “next number” field. The next student added will have this number, incrementing thereafter. You will need admin or district admin permission to access this setting.

Ensure the next number is higher than the current number to maintain unique numbering.

With this improvement, we have also resolved issue of toggling Auto Number = On/Off resulting in the default next number as 1000.

Admins can now see the time stamp of when the report card was generated. Headers are updated to “Generated on” and “Generated By” to avoid confusion. This helps analyze if report cards need regeneration after changes to grades, comments, and attendance by your teachers.

Teachers can now see the time stamp in the classroom module under the table header “Generated/Released On.”

We have made improvements to ensure the asterisk shows only if there are latest changes not captured in the generated report card, for a specific grading period. This includes changes to grades, comments, and attendance.

Removed cache browser suggestions for dates used in the past, allowing direct access to the date picker. This is compatible with major browsers including Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

Fixed the issue of 2026 calendar days not being available when preparing for the next school year.

We have made a hotfix focusing on report cards:

- Adding a comment for skills and deleting it resulted in a duplicate Comment Header in the report card, this is fixed.

- In the report card template "Course Final Grades with Standards", the section attendance header is improved to align with the template's existing style set.

Teachers, we have good news for you!

If you follow standard based grading and struggling to finalize the grades one standard or one student at a time than we have a solution in the form of a "new view".

We have introduced the school year filter on this report so that you can run this report for either Daily or Section attendance method.

The rest of functionality is all still available to you.

We have introduced the "Course Section" filter on this report. This is helpful especially to run the section attendance report, it lets you to custom select the list of course sections to be part of the report.

A sample of the actual report is as below. The second column is the list of course sections, while the bottom row is a total of each attendance types.

A popular report card template called "Course Final Grades with Standards" is improved to show section attendance as below. This is available on demand, please contact our client support team with any questions.

We have applied minor cosmetic lift to the admin interface. A summary of the upgrade includes -

Snapshot before the update

Snapshot after the update

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Snapshot after the update

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Snapshot after the update

No functionality is impacted by this upgrade.

We added TADS Suite ID to Student Account Details Report. This will make the reconciliation process for schools/admins convenient. You can efficiently compare data or import into TADS for billing with the help of this ID.

This tagged report is available under the POS module as well.

- WISE Data integration not recognizing the tags is fixed. Admins will be able to tag the relevant tags for a student or list of students and then send the updated data to wise.

- Cleanup the attendance gateway queries to avoid writing a new query plan every time the attendance query runs. This will help with the overall performance of the attendance queries and set us up for future attendance enhancements.

We are excited to unveil the new design of our login pages! This update is applicable to all users. The functionality will remain unchanged, and the focus is on modernizing the appearance.

The new login pages are just the first step in our UI overhaul. Over the next few months, we’ll be rolling out more updates, starting with the family-facing portals.

The functionalities including Forgot Password, Change Password, Community One Single-Sign-On is still available with the updated design.

You will also enjoy mobile responsiveness on these pages.

We picked this from our wishlist! Parents can now access forms from the Household Module. Parents will see the "Forms" under the School menu in the left-hand L-Bar. This will make the forms readily available to families so soon as it's published by the admins.

Parents can use the search feature to smart search any forms and can also apply the filters as desired. By default, it will always sort the forms in descending order by the "due date".

The status column and the filters will come handy, below is the definition of each status.

: Parents/Guardians will see the forms assigned to self, to child(ren) for whom they have the legal custody. They will also see the forms assigned to their Household and their spouse. Parents/Guardians with NO legal custody will NOT see the forms assigned to their child(ren).

As we continue to enhance our Standard Base Grades offering, we have improved the report card to handle two major key area:

We are introducing TADS Suite ID in the "Order Item Transactions" report. This should help enable the admins to conveniently drive the reconciliation process, compare data with TADS etc. Click here to read more about TADS Suite ID.

Path to this report is POS module > Reports tab > Order Item Transactions.

Here is snapshot of this report.

Note - We will be adding TADS Suite ID to more reports in the future.

Teachers and Admins can now access release notes from anywhere within Educate and not just the Dashboard! This should make every release note available at your fingertips and keep you updated with all the improvements we are bringing at regular cadence.

Login to Educate and notice the new icon as below, click on the icon to see the quick updates. Click on "See all changes" to access all the release notes.

More to it - it will show a red dot over the icon whenever there is a new release. This will help you as a notification for every new release.

Here is the sample screenshot of the release notes

Teachers and Admin can submit feedback to us as before, however, you will be alerted and notified better with our improved tracking system. We have centralized the feedback on our side with the release notes, this will help us track, update and communicate with you efficiently. 

Also, bringing in new icons here so that it helps you visually to identify the options and navigate hassle free.

Here is the teacher view on Classroom module -

Here is the sample screen to submit feedback - you will be in the "Feedback" tab > Add description, details and relevant files (images, short videos etc.) to help us understand your feedback > hit "Create Post".

The bell icon (in orange box) is where you will notice the updates on the feedback you just summitted us from time to time. Example: your feedback is under review, added to roadmap etc.

Introducing "Contact Support" option so you can get assistance from our amazing support team! You will be directed to this page.

This is available to both teachers and admins.

More to come, watch for our next release!

We have improved the grading period transitioning logic in the Finalized page > Comments tab; it respects the publish window of the track similar to the score or standard tabs. Which means, it will transition to the next grading period after the publish window is closed. This will eliminate the unnecessary manual toggle of grading period when teachers tries to add comment at the end of a grading period, but, within the publish window.

We are excited to introduce our new logo! This is us taking tiny steps towards an intuitive user experience, more to come in the near future!

The new product logo is available throughout the product, below are the key areas:

: We added an auto carry over of the credentials while creating a new school year. Carry over is from the immediate previous school year to the next school year. This is added so that admins do not have to re-enter the credentials in the new school year. However, for any reason if you have a new credential from WISE for a specific new school year, then you can edit and save the new credentials. The credential on the past school year will stay as-is.

The path is School module > Setup > Data > Wise > Wise Settings

: This is a planned maintenance due to vise requirement change. Admins/Teachers or parents will not be impacted by this update, you can continue using the payment feature as usual.

: We fixed the bug that resulted in deletion of a standards be impacted on all the school years. With the fix in place, if you delete a standard from a school year then it will be deleted on from that particular school year.

The path to access standards for a school year is - School module > Setup > Instruction > Standards > Select the Grade and School Year > Go > Click on the pen and paper icon of the desired subject area.